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YEAR    BOOK 

OF 

CHILD    LORE 


Compiled  by 

GRACE    HALL    BOWERS 

New  Britain ,  Conn- 


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YEAR  BOOK  OF  CHILD  LORE 


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January  tot  first 


January  m  fourtn. 


DREARY  place  would  be  this  earth 
Were  there  no  little  people  in  it ; 

The  song  of  life  would  lose  its  mirth, 
Were  there  no  children  to  begin  it. 

Whittier. 


January  tbe  second. 

/pHILDREN  are  God's  apostles,  day 
by  day  sent  forth  to  preach  of  love 
and  hope  and  peace. 

Lowell. 


January  tbe  tnlrd. 

T  L,OVE  these  little  people,  and  it  is 
not  a  slight  thing  when  they  who 
are  fresh  from  God,  love  us. 

Charles  Dickens. 


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HE  birth  of  a  child  is  the  imprison- 
ment of  a  soul. 

Simons. 


January  tne  flftb. 

Q\  BANISH  the  tears  of  children  !  con- 
*      tinued  rains  upon  the  blossoms  are 
hurtful. 

Jean  Paul. 


January  the  sixth. 


January  the  ninth. 


n^HERE  is  no  substitute   for  a  child's        OEXT  to  the  cradle  song  is  the  cradle 

-*■  nroii   r\(  twinn    d    r^ilr?  StOTV. 


way  of  being  a  child. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


January  the  seventh. 


OATURE  requires  children  to  be  chil- 
dren before  they  are  men. 

Rousseau. 


January  the  eighth. 

7]  S  the  moths  around  a  taper, 
As  the  bees  around  a  rose, 
As  the  gnats  around  a  vapor, 
So  the  spirits  group  and  close 
Round  about  a  holy  childhood 
as  if  drinking  its  repose. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


Col.  Parker. 


January  the  tenth. 


•OME  children  are  like  little  human 
scrawl-books — blotted  all  over  with 
the  sins  and  mistakes  of  their  an- 
cestors. 

Kate  Douglass  Wig  gin. 


January  the  eleventh. 

\_LJE  are  not  among  those  who  believe 
that  all  children  are  born  good. 
Herbert  Spencer. 


January  the  tweif  th. 

T\  ND  Nature,  the  old  nurse,  took 
®         The  child  upon  her  knee, 

Saying,  '  Here  is  a  story-book 
Thy  Father  hath  written  for  thee.' 
Longfellow. 


January  the  thirteenth. 

T  DEEM  it  wise  to  make  him  Nature's 
playmate. 

Coleridge. 


January  toe  fourteenth. 

ll  E  was  a  very  little  fellow  indeed,  but 
*■        he  made  the  most  of    himself  as 
people  ought  to  do. 

Charles  Kingsley. 


January  the  fifteenth. 


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HE    mother's    heart    is    the   child's 
school-room. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


January  the  sixteenth. 

H^HE   future   destiny   of  the    child   is 
always  the  work  of  the  mother. 

Napoleon. 


January  the  seventeenth. 

7]    CHIIvD  knows  when  he  is  regarded 

as  a  toy,  a  lap-dog,  a  mere  source 

of  amusement, or  butt  for  ridicule. 

Patterson  Du  Bois. 


January  the  eighteenth. 


January  the  twentieth. 


DEARER  the  gate  of  Paradise  than  we, 
Our  children  breathe  its  air,  its 


angels  see. 


R.  H.  Stoddard. 


January  the  nineteenth. 

T«,AST  night  the  stork  came  stalking, 
And  stork,  beneath  your  wing 
Lay,  wrapped  in  dreamless  slumber 
The  tiniest  little  thing  ! 
From  Baby  land,  out  yonder 
Beside  a  silver  sea, 
You  brought  a  priceless  treasure 
As  gift  to  mine  and  me  ! 

Eugene  Field. 


T\  LL  is  joy  for  baby  while 

In  the  light  of  mother's  smile. 


E  mi  lie  Poulsson. 


January  the  twenty-first. 

CHE  had  sweet  blue  eyes  and  pretty 
brown  hair,  with  round,  dimpled 
cheeks,  and  that  perfect  dignity 
which  is  so  beautiful  in  a  baby. 

T.  IV.  Higginson. 


January  the  twenty-second. 


"EDUCATION  commences  at  the  moth- 
er's knee. 

Henry  Ballou. 


January  the  twentv-third. 

IJLJHERE   did   you   come   from,  baby- 
dear  ? 
Out  of  the  everywhere  into  here. 
Where  did  you  get  your  eyes  so 

blue? 
Out  of  the  sky  as  I  came  through. 
Geo.  MacDonald. 


January  the  twenty-fourth. 

CHILDREN  are  the  hands  by  which  to 
take  hold  of  heaven. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


January  the  twenty-fifth. 

CHILDREN  love  to  recount  their  ex- 
periences, for  in  telling  what  they 
have  seen  and  done  they  take  pos- 
session of  it. 

Susan  Blow. 


January  the  twenty-sixth. 


CHILDREN  are  the  most  unerring  and 
penetrating  of  observers. 

Florence  B.  Lockwood. 


January  the  twenty-seventh. 

U^HERE  is   something  very   cheerful 

■*      and   courageous  in  the  setting-out 

of  a  child  on  a  journey  of  speech 

with  so  small  baggage  and  with  so 

much  confidence. 

Alice  Meynell. 


January  m  twenty-eigbtD. 

(e)[  BUD  of  soul  in  blossom. 

Thomas  L.  Harris. 


January  tl>e  twnty-nintn. 

lJ  EAVENLY  music  seems  to  steal 
•*■        Where  thought  of  her  forever 
lingers, 
And  round  my  heart  I  always  feel 
The  twining  of  her  dimpled  fingers. 

Eugene  Field. 


January  the  tbirtietn. 


£T7HE   childhood   shows   the   man    as 
■*•      morning  shows  the  day. 

Milton. 


January  the  thirty-first. 

£T7HE  first  duty  toward  children  is  to 

-*      make  them  happy.     No  other  good 

they  may  get  can  make  up  for  that. 

Charles  Buxton. 


f  ebruary  the  first 

/^HILDREN  will  grow  up  substantially 
what  they  are  by  nature — and  only 
that. 

Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 


Yeferuary  the  second. 

O'ER  wayward  children  would 'st  thou 

®      hold  firm  rule,  and  sun  thee  in  the 

light  of  happy  faces  ? 

Love,  Hope  and  Patience — these  must 

be  thy  graces.     But  in  thine  own 

heart  let  them  first  keep  school. 

Coleridge. 


Tebruary  the  third. 

JHHE  clew  of  our  destiny,  wander  where 
we  will,  lies  at  the  cradle  foot. 

Jean  Paul  Richter. 


February  the  fourth. 

"QOT  a  few  of  our  perplexing  problems 
would  cease  to  exist  if  we  were 
more  willing  to  follow  God's  lead- 
ings— oftentimes  through  a  little 
child. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


Te&ruary  the  fifth. 

DROM  the  first  smile  in  your  infant's 
eyes,  your  opportunity  begins  to 
educate  him. 

Whately. 


February  she  slxtb. 

7]  ND  a  little  child  shall  lead  them 

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February  tbe  seventh. 


Bible. 


H^ALKING  low    and  tenderly  to  my- 
-1        self  as  mothers  will, 

Spake   I   softly;  "God   in   heaven, 

keep  my  darling  free  from  ill, 
Worldly    gear  and  worldly  honors, 

ask  I  not  for  her  of  Thee  ; 
But  from  want  and  sin  and  sorrow, 
keep  her  ever  pure  and  free. 

Ethel  Lynn. 

Tibruary  tbe  cigbtb. 


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MAN  looketh  on  his  little  one  as  a 


being  of  better  hope. 

February  tbe  nintb. 


Tapper. 


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UR  early  years,  like  the  infant  oak,    I 
contain  the  elements  of  our  future 

being. 

F.  V.  N.  Painter.    I 


February  tbe  tentb. 

T  »ET  parents  then   bequeath  to   their 
children,  not  riches,  but  the  spirit 


of  reverence. 


Plato. 


February  tbe  elewntb. 

TN  the  man  whose  childhood  has  known 
caresses,  there  is  always  a  fibre  of 
memory  that  can  be  touched  to 
gentle  issue. 

George  Eliot. 


February  tbe  twelftb. 

liJHERE  children  are,  there   is   the 
golden  age. 

Nova  lis. 


fefcruary  the  thirteenth. 


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TORN  jacket  is  soon  mended:  but 
hard  words  bruise  the  heart  of  a 
child. 

Longfellow. 


fe&ruary  the  fourteenth. 

CHILDHOOD   and  youth   see  all  the 
world  in  persons. 

Emerson. 


f  efcruary  the  fifteenth. 

T^OOK  into  our  childish  faces 

See  ye  not  our  willing  hearts  ? 
Only  love  us  —  only  lead  us; 
Only  let  us  know  you  need  us, 
And  we  all  will  do  our  parts. 

Mary  Howitt. 


February  the  sixteenth. 

OHIIvDREN  are  the  tomorrow  of  soci- 
ety. 

Whale  ly. 


f  eftruary  the  seventeenth. 

7]  ND  still  to  childhood's  sweet  appeal 
The  heart  of  genius  turns, 
And  more  than  all  the  sages  teach 
From  lisping  voices  learns. 

Whittier. 


Tehruary  the  eighteenth. 

£!OD  help  those  who  do  not  know   a 
Pitty  pat  or  a  Tippy  toe! 

Eugene  Field. 


Ternary  the  nineteenth.  February  the  twenty-second. 

£UHE    child  is  sure  to  hate  the    man    :    rnjjE  children  of  today  are  the  men  of 


unwise, 
Who  gives  him  everything  for  which 
he  cries. 

Spurgeon. 


Tebruary  the  twentieth. 

OHILDREN  possess  an  unestimated 
sensibility  to  whatever  is  deep  or 
high  in  imagination  or  feeling,  so 
long  as  it  is  simple. 

Hawthorne. 


J  ebruary  the  twenty-first. 

TN  whose  deep  eyes  men  read  the  wel- 
fare of  the  times  to  come. 

Emerson. 


tomorrow. 


Froebel. 


Tebrnary  the  twenty-third. 

r[7HE  bent  into  good  or  evil  may   be 
*■      given  in  the  hours  of  infancy. 

Tupper. 


February  the  twenty-fourth. 

O^HR    most   beautiful    witness  to  the 
*•      evolution  of  man  is  the  mind  of  a 
little  child. 

Henry  Drummond. 


f  estuary  tne  twenty-!  if  tn. 

11  VERY  child  differs  from  every  other 
~     child  as  much  as  one  star  differeth 


from  another  star. 


Nora  Smith. 


fe&rnary  tne  twenty-sixth. 

/CHILDREN  have  more  need  of  mod- 
els, than  of  critics. 

Joubert. 


Wuary  tne  twenty-seventn. 

JUST  as  the  twig  is  bent  the  tree  is 


inclined. 


Pope. 


February  tne  twenty-eigntn. 

QH  !  what  am  I  that  I  should  train 
®      An  angel  for  the  skies, 

Or    mix   the   potent  draught   that 

feeds 
The  soul  within  those  eyes! 

Ciirtiss  May. 


march  the  first. 

H^HERE  is  music  very  classical 

And  those  who  seem  to  like  it  well, 
But  the  music  suits  me  best, 
When  I'm  tired,  gives  me  rest, 
Is  to  hear  a  little  child 
Gurgle  out  in  laughter  mild, 
And  just  laugh  and  laugh  its  best. 
Eugene  Field. 


march  the  second. 

OHILDHOOD  is  so  ineffable  that  we 
may  unite  all  affections  upon  it. 

Victor  Hugo. 


march  the  third. 

JUHE  organization  of  a  child  is  natu- 
*■      rally  as  sensitive  as  the  strings  of 
an  ^Eolian  harp. 

Florence  Winterburn. 


march  the  fourth. 

/^HILDREN  are  what  the  mothers  are. 
No  fondest  father's  fondest  care 
Can  fashion  so  the  infant  heart. 

Landor. 


march  the  fifth. 

LXJATCH  as  your  baby  grows,  and  you 

will  see, 
That  his  whole  life,  wherever  he  may  be, 
Is  a  perpetual  mimicry. 

Susan  Blow. 


march  the  sixth 


march  the  ninth. 


CT^HE  child's  heart  is  a  harp  of  many 
strings,  and  touched  by  the  hand 
of  a  master,  a  fine  clear  tone  will  sound 
from  every  one  of  them,  while  the  re- 
sultant strain  will  be  a  triumphant  burst 
of  glorious  harmony. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


march  the  seventh. 

LXJE  could  never  have  loved  the  earth 
if  we  had  had  no  childhood  in  it. 


George  Eliot. 


march  the  eighth. 

QOME  of  the  gravest  questions  relat- 
ing to  man's  nature  and  destiny 
carry  us  back  to  the  observations  of 
infancy. 

Bernard  Perez. 


\JE_7HAT  the  child  imitates  he  is  trying 
to  understand. 

Froebel. 


march  the  tenth. 

TT    is   not   presidents   nor   kings    that 
rule  us.     The  little  childner  are  our 


sovereigns. 


William  Burnet  Wright. 


march  the  eleventh. 

CHILDHOOD  had  its  litanies 
In  every  age  and  clime  ; 
The  earliest  cradles  of  the  race 
Were  rocked  to  poet's  rhyme! 

Whittier. 


march  the  twelf th. 


marc!)  the  fourteenth. 


O^HE  most  sublime  psalm  that  can  be        LLJHEN  baby  goes  a-rocking 

*  Vioo  i-A       r\-rt       ♦•Trio      **o  t**Vi      ic     4- Via     1  icrviti  rr  Tn    lior    V»aH     o4-     r»l  nco    r\-f    rloii 


heard  on  this  earth  is  the  lisping 
of  a  human  soul  from  the  lips  of 
childhood. 

Victor  Hugo. 


march  the  thirteenth 

-QEAR  child  !   Within  thee  lives 

A  power  that  deeper  feeling  gives, 
That  makes  thee  more  than  life  or  air, 
Than   all   things   sweet  and  all  things 

fair; 
And  sweet  and  fair  as  aught  may  be, 
Diviner  life  belongs  to  thee, 
For  'mid  thine  aimless  joys  began 
The  perfect  heart  and  will  of  Man. 

John  Sterling. 


In  her  bed  at  close  of  day, 

At  hide-and-seek 

On  her  dainty  cheek 
The  dreams  and  dimples  play. 

Eugene  Field. 


march  the  fifteenth. 

T  HAD  a  little  daughter, 

And  she  was  given  to  me, 
To  lead  me  gently  backward, 
To  the  Heavenly  Father's  knee. 

Lowell. 


march  the  sixteenth. 

T  70U  are  more  than  the  earth,  though 
®*  you  are  such  a  dot : 

You  can   love   and   think,   and   the 
earth  cannot. 

Lilliput  Lectures. 


march  the  seventeenth. 

|NE  of  the  best  things  in  the  world 
is  to  be  a  boy  ;  it  requires  no  expe- 
rience, though  it  needs  some  prac- 
tice to  be  a  good  one. 

Charles  D.   Warner. 


march  the  eighteenth. 

£J7HERE    are   few   gifts   to   man   more 
*■      precious,    and    at    the    same  time 
more  common,    than    the    gift  of 
children. 

Mrs.  Frank  Malleson. 


march  the  nineteenth. 

ORUEL  children,  crying  babies, 
All  grow  up  as  geese  and  gabies, 
Hated,  as  their  age  increases, 
By  their  nephews  and  their  nieces. 
R.  L.  Stevenson. 


march  the  twentieth. 

(CHILDREN  in  their  innocence  form 
a  link  between  heaven  and  earth. 

Hoffman. 


march  the  twenty-first* 

TE    ye    are  blessed  with   children,    ye 

have  a  fearful  pleasure, 
A  deeper  care  and  a  higher  joy,  and  the 

range  of  your  existence  is  widened. 
Tupper. 


march  the  twenty-second. 


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HE  child  is  father  of  the  man. 

Wordsworth. 


march  the  twenty-third. 

COME  old  philosopher  remarked  that 
in  dealing  with  children  he  found 
it  well  to  "  be  a  little  deaf,  a  little 
dumb,  and  a  little  blind." 

Winterburn. 


march  the  twenty-fourth. 

^PHESE  are  my  jewels. 

Cornelia. 


march  the  twenty-fifth. 

OUT  these  others, —  children  small, 
Spilt  like  blots  about  the  city, 
Quay  and  street,  and  palace-wall — 
Take  them  up  into  your  pity! 

Mrs.  Browning. 


march  the  twenty-sixth. 

CHILDHOOD  is  the  sleep  of  reason. 

-Rousseau. 


march  the  twenty-seventh. 

T  7E   are  better  than  all  the  ballads 
t-'         That  ever  were  sung  or  said  ; 
For  ye  are  living  poems, 

And  all  the  rest  are  dead. 

Longfellow. 


march  m  twenty-eighth. 

F  WOULD  not  have  given  that  one 
small  dimple  in  her  chin  for  the 
power  of  changing  this  whole  big 
earth  into  a  solid  lump  of  gold. 

Hawthorne. 


march  the  twenty-ninth. 

T~7ROM  the  mother  the  child  may  re- 
ceive its  strongest  bent,  and  to  her 
is  given  the  key  which  unlocks 
the  character. 

Mrs.  A.  G.  Gordon- 


march  the  thirtieth. 


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IS  presence  is  like  sunshine  sent  to 
gladden  home  and  hearth, 

To  comfort  us  in  all  our  grief,  and 
sweeten  all  our  mirth. 

John  Moultrie. 


marefcilK  tMrtyflrtr. 


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F  mothers  could  better  understand 
their  children,  they  would  not  do 
so  many  things  to  trouble  them. 

Lucy  Wheelock. 


April  the  first. 

£J7HERE  is  more  danger  of  a  parent's 
J       hindering   a   child   than   a   child's 
hindering  a  parent. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


April  the  second. 


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O  one  mother  the  child  is  little  more 
than  the  funny  column  of  a  news- 
paper. 

Emilie  Poulsson. 


April  the  third. 

"LXJE  older  human  beings  feel  a  cer- 
tain awe  in  the  presence  of  a 
little  child,  such  as  we  feel  before  some 
quiet  majesty  or  beauty  in  the  earth  or 
sky,  or  the  bending  trees  over  a  silent 
pathway. 

George  Eliot. 


April  the  fourth. 

QH   what  a  wilderness  were  this  sad 
®  world, 

If  man  were  always  man  and  never 
child. 

Coleridge. 


April  the  fifth. 

(CHILDREN  are  wonderfully  sagacious 
in  detecting  their  natural  friends 
and  enemies. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


April  the  sixth. 

OHIIvDREN  have  no  mercy  nor  con- 
sideration for  anybody's  weariness; 
and  if  you  had  but  a  single  breath  left, 
they  would  ask  you  to  spend  it  in  telling 
them  a  story. 

Hawthorne. 


April  the  seventh. 

T    LOVE  God  and  children.     Ye  stand 
nearest  to  Him,  ye  little  ones. 

Jean  Patil  Richter. 


April  the  eighth. 

QLICEP,  children,  sleep,  young  inno- 
cent immortals, 
Wafted  from  heaven  into  our  loving 
arms ; 
Sleep  with  your  faces  turned  to  heavenly 
portals, 
Lulled  by  melodious  charms. 

Thomas  Harris. 


April  the  ninth. 

-tnON'T  aim  at  controlling  every  detail 

of  a  child's  life. 

Spencer. 


April  the  tenth. 

LXJHOEVER    has   learned   to   under- 
stand one  child  thoroughly,  has 
been  a  benefactor  to  all  children  if  her 
record  is  so  made  as  to  be  intelligible  to 

others. 

Nora  Smith. 


April  the  eleventh. 

T«ET  us  permit  Nature  to  take  her  own 
way  a  little  ;  she  better  under- 
stands her  own  affairs  than  we. 

Montaigne. 


April  the  twelfth. 

Q  BLESSED  vision!   happy  child! 
®      Thou  art  so  exquisitely  mild, 
I  think  of  thee  with  many  fears 
For  what  may  be  thy  lot  in  future  years. 
Wordsworth. 


April  the  thirteenth. 

[   PITY  him  who  has  a  beard 
But  has  no  little  girl  to  pull  it. 

Eugene  Field. 


April  the  fourteenth. 


O  LESSED   is  he  who  helped  the  lit- 
'         tie  ones  :  he  shall  have  peace  in 


his  day. 


Sab  in. 


April  the  fifteenth. 

T   KNOW  he's  coming  by  this  sign, 

That  baby's  almost  wild, 
See    how    he    laughs    and    crows    and 

stares, — 
Heaven  bless  the  merry  child! 
He's  father's  self  in  face  and  limb, 
And  father's  heart  is  strong  in  him. 

Mary  Howitt. 


April  the  sixteenth. 

BABE  in  the  house  is  a  well-spring 
of  pleasure. 

Tupper. 


April  the  seventeenth. 

Q*  HILD  friends  are  as  dear  and  beau- 
tiful a  source  of  inspiration  as  this 
old  world  affords. 

Annie  Willis  McCnllough . 


April  the  eighteenth. 

(^HILDHOOD,  like  every  age  of  life, 
needs  its  duties. 

Susan  Blow. 


April  the  nineteenth. 

HE  little  shoes  that  are  stored  away 
in  the  old  trunk — what  secrets  do 
they  hold  that  send  the  baby's  mem- 
ories crowding  into  the  mother's  heart 
faster  than  all  the  other  little  garments 
laid  away. 

Charlotte  Whitney  Eastman. 


April  the  twentieth. 

7]    FAMILY  should  be    to   the  child 

the  symbol  of  order  of  the  world. 

Hebari. 


April  the  twenty-first. 

7]    BOY'S  will  is  the  wind's  will, 
(g/T. 

And    the  thoughts   of   youth   are 

long,  long  thoughts. 

Longfellow. 


J\ t>r\\  tbe  twenty*$ec©i«l. 

WHE  smallest  children  are  nearest  to 
*■      God,    as   the   smallest   planets    are 
nearest  the  sun. 

Jean  Paul  Richter. 


V\l 


April  tbe  twenty-third. 

HE  first  idea  which  we  should  seek 
to  establish  in  the  child's  mind  is 
the  belief  that  his  parents  are  his 
sympathetic  friends. 

Winterbum. 


April  tbe  twenty-foutb. 

I^VEN    a   child's  love   left   unsought, 
unfostered,  droops  and  dies  away. 
Froebel. 


April  tbe  twenty-fiftb. 

TreIKE  as  the  arrows  in  the  hand  of  a 
giant,  even  so  are  the  young  chil- 


dren. 


Archdeacon  Farrar. 


April  tbe  twenty-sixtb. 

/(J'HIIvDREN    are  not  born  moral;  do 
not  become  cultured  and  educated 
by  a  heaven-sent  gift  of  intuition. 
Nathan  Oppenheim. 


April  tbe  twenty-sevetttb. 

HE  child  should  be  in  harmony  with 
himself. 

Hughes. 


April  m  twcmy-efgfttb. 


sn 


HE  care  of  children  is  the  great 
means  of  stimulating  and  preserv- 
ing unselfishness  in  the  world. 

Felix  Adler. 


April  m  twctity-ttintft. 

OBSERVE   the  child;    he  will  teach 
&      you  what  to  do. 

Froebel. 


April  m  thirtieth 

H^HERE  is  not  a  shadow  of  doubt  or 
concealment  between  my  children 
and  me.  All  is  open  and  plain  among 
us,  as  though  we  were  brothers^  and 
sisters. 

Charles  Dickens. 


may  the  first. 


O^HE  budding-season  of  spring  repre- 
'       sents  childhood;  the  blossom-time 
of  summer,  youth. 

Baroness  Van  Buelow. 


may  the  second. 


may  the  fourth, 

rT7HE  mystery  of  unfolding  life 
'       Was  more  than  dawning  morn, 
Than    opening     flower     or    crescent 
moon — 
The  human  soul  new-born. 

Whittier. 


d 


ATURE  was  all  in  tune  with  the  lit- 
tle man,  on  that  day  when  he  was 


may  the  fifth. 

COHERE  are  small  Pharisees  in  bibs 
almost  midway  between  seven  and  eight  [  ^  piuafores  as  full  Qf  worldliness 
years  old.     .     .     .     Nature  was   God's,  &&  ^  ^ 

so  was  he. 


Patterson  DuBois. 


may  the  third. 


© 


SWEET  new  blossom  of  Humanity, 
Fresh  fallen  from  God' sown  home 
to  blossom  on  earth. 

Masay. 


William  Burnet  Wright. 

may  the  sixth. 

CDHE  wisdom  of  the  wisest  being  God 

*■      has  made  ends  in  wonder;  and  there 

is  nothing   on   earth   so  wonderful 

as  the  budding  soul  of  a  little  child. 

Lucy  Larconi. 


may  toe  seventh. 


S  pure  as  a  pearl, 

And  as  perfect:   A  noble  and  inno- 
cent girl. 

Owen  Meredith. 


may  the  eighth. 

T  »OOK  at  home,  father  priest,  mother 
priest;  your  church  is  a  hundred- 
fold heavier  responsibility  than  mine 
can  be.  Your  priesthood  is  from  God's 
own  hands. 

Henry  Ward  Beech er. 


may  m  ninth. 

"\70UR  little  child  is  your  only   true 
®'       democrat. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Beecher  St  owe. 


may  the  tenth. 

T\  L/L,    the    day   long   with   your   busy 
®        contriving, 

Into  all  mischief  and  fun  you  are  driv- 
ing: 
See  if  your  wise  little  noddle  can  tell 
What  you  are  good  for.     Now  ponder  it 

well. 

Selected. 

may  the  eleventh. 

IXJIN  the  children,  and  you  have  the 

home.     The  child  is  the  gateway 

to  the  family. 

Landrith. 

may  the  twelfth. 

COE,  bonnie,  dinna  greit; 

Moder  doth  rock  her  sweete, — 

Balow,  my  boy  ! 

Give  me  thy  lyttle  hand, 

Moder  will  hold  it  and 

Lead  thee  to  balow  land, — 

Balow,  my  boy  ! 

Eugene  Field. 


may  the  thirteenth. 


may  the  sixteenth. 


fQT'ALL    not   that   man    wretched,    who 

whatever  ills  he  suffers,  has  a  child 

he  loves. 

Southey. 


may  the  fourteenth. 

T©)ARENT5,  let  your  home  a  children's 
*  garden  be, 

Where   with   watchful    love    the  young 
plants'  growth  you  see. 

Froebel. 


may  the  fifteenth. 

LJ  ER  little  life  was  a  blessing  to  us 
■*■  all,  giving  a  perpetual  image  of 
serenity  and  sweetness,  ....  and 
holding  us  by  unsuspected  ties  to  what- 
soever things  were  pure. 

T.  IV.  Higginson. 


H7HRE 
1         .■ 


HREE    years  she   grew  in  sun  and 

shower, 

Then  Nature  said,  "A  lovelier  flower 
On  earth  was  never  sown." 

Wordsworth. 


may  the  seventeenth. 

JJT7HE  training  of  a  child  is  a  profession 
1      where  we  must  know  how  to  lose 
time  in  order  that  we  may  gain  it. 
Rousseau. 


may  the  eighteenth. 


sp 


HE    child   says   what   he   heard   his 

mother  say. 

Proverb. 


^p 


may  the  nineteenth. 

H  K  child  that  early  in  life  has 
learned  to  govern  his  own  spirit, 
has  fought  not  only  for  himself  but 
for  his  descendants. 

Mary  Wood-Allen. 


may  the  twentieth. 

IJLJHO  is  not  attracted  by  bright  and 
pleasant  children,  to  prattle,  to 
creep,  and  to  play  with  them  ? 

Epictetus. 


may  the  twenty-first. 

TF  I  pride  myself  on  anything  it  is  be- 
cause I  have  a  smile  that  children 


love. 


Hawthorne . 


may  the  twenty-second 


SU 


O  win  a  child's  affection  and  confi- 
dence is  not  easy,  because  it  re- 
quires not  only  real  virtue  but 
sympathetic  insight. 

Winterburn. 


may  the  twenty-third. 

^HIIvDREN  are  earthly  idols  that 
hold  us  from  the  stars. 

Douglass  Jerrold. 


may  the  twenty-fourth. 

T  N  the  action  of  the  child  there  is  often 
a  meaning  of  personal  devotion 
which  we  are  dull  in  discerning 
and  slow  to  honor. 

Patterson  DuEois. 


may  tbe  twenty-fifth. 


O  L,EEP,  little  babe,  en  my  knee, 

Sleep,  for  the  midnight  is  chill, 
And  the  moon  has  dried  out  in  the  tree, 
And  the  great  human  world  goeth 
ill. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


may  tbe  twenty-sixtb. 

iJTHE    child's    fond    prattle    and    the 
■*•  mother's  prayer, 

Angelic  voices  floating  on  the  air. 

Richardson. 


may  tbe  twenty-$eoentb. 

T  T  is  no  small  thing  when  a  fresh  soul 
And   a   fresh  heart,  with  their  un- 
measured scope 
For    good,    not    gravitating    earthward 

yet, 
But  circling  in  diviner  periods, 
Are  sent  into  the  world. 

Lowell. 


may  tbe  twenty-eigbtb. 

CWEKT    flow'ret,    pledge   o'   meikle 
love, 
And  wand  o'  mony  a  prayer, 
What     heart     o'   stane     wad     thou   no 
move, 
Sae  helpless,  sweet,  and  fair. 

Robert  Burns. 


may  tbe  twenty-ninth. 

/pHECK  not  a  child  in  his  merriment — 
should  not  his  morning  be  sunny  ? 
Tapper. 


may  the  thirtieth, 

TftIKE  the  flowers  that  spring  up  fair, 
Bright  and  countless  everywhere! 


Whereso'er  a  foot  hath  gone, 
Whereso'er  the  sun  hath  shown 
On  a  league  of  peopled  ground, 
Little  children  may  be  found! 

Mary  How  it  t. 


may  the  thirty-first. 

TraET  children  soak  themselves  in  the 
atmosphere  of  nature.  Don't  stick 
it  on  the  outside. 

John  Burroughs. 


3une  tbe  first. 

tSoW  blessed  is  the  little  toddling 
thing  who  can  be  flat  in  the  sun- 
shine and  drink  in  the  beauty  of  the 
"green  things  growing,"  who  can  live 
among  the  other  little  animals,  his 
brothers  and  sisters  in  feathers  and  fur, 
who  can  put  his  hand  in  that  of  dear 
mother  Nature,  and  learn  his  first  baby 
lessons  without  any  meddlesome  mid- 
dleman. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


3une  the  second. 

CHILDREN   always  turn  toward  the 
light. 

Hare. 


June  the  third 


HI 


HOU  pretty  opening  rose! 

Balmy   and   breathing   music    like 

the  south, 
Fresh  as  the  morn  and  brilliant  as 
its  star. 

Thomas  Hood. 


3wne  the  fourth. 

TT  is  the  mother's  privilege  to  plant  in 

the   hearts   of    her    children    those 

seeds   of    love   which,    if  nurtured  and 

fostered,     will     bear    the    blossom      of 

perpetual     youth,      and    the     fruit     of 

earnest   and    useful   lives. 

Selected. 


June  the  fifth. 

r   LOVE  flowers,  men,  children,  God  ! 

Froebel. 


June  the  sixth. 

Q  HOW  me  when  a  bud 
Changes  to  a  rose, 
Then  I'll  tell  you  truly 
When  a  baby  grows. 


Anonymous. 


June  the  seventh. 

"LJ  OW  he  sleepeth,  having  drunken 
Weary  childhood's  mandragore! 
From  its  pretty  eyes  have  sunken 

Pleasures  to  make  room  for  more: 
Sleeping  near  the  withered  nosegay, 
Which  he  pulled  the  day  before. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


June  the  eighth. 


sp 


HE  infant  is  like  the  tender   petals 

of  a  rose. 

Winterburu. 


June  the  ninth. 

7]    ROSE  that  breathes  of  Paradise, 

Just  budded  from  the  life  divine, 

A  little,  tender,  smiling  babe, 

As  yet  more  God's  and  heaven's 

than  mine. 

G.  Greenwood. 


June  the  tenth. 

lfjOW  often  a  little  child  could  lead 
us,  if  only  we  were  willing  to  be 
led  by  a  little  child. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


June  the  eleventh. 

TT  is  significant  of  every  great  new 
birth  in  the  world  that  it  turns  its 
face  towards  childhood,  and  looks 
into  that  image  for  the  profoundest 
realization  of  its  hopes  and  dreams. 

Horace  Scudder. 


3une  the  twelfth 


June  the  fifteenth. 


/fpOME  let  us  live  with  our  childreu. 

Froebel. 


Uune  the  thirteenth. 

H^HE  tear  down  childhood's  cheek  that 
-*■  flows 

Is  like  the  dew  drop  on  the  rose; 
When  next  the  summer  breeze  comes  by, 
And  waves  the  bush,  the  flower  is  dry. 
Sir  Walter  Scott. 


June  the  fourteenth. 


P 


LOVELY    being,    scarcely    formed 

or  molded, 

A  rose  with  all  its   sweetest   leaves   yet 

folded. 

Byron . 


IJLJHA'f  sympathy  children  have  with 
nature  till  education  clouds  it  ! 

Jean  Inge  low. 


June  m  sixteenth. 

LXJ HENCE  that  three-cornered  smile 

of  bliss? 
Three  angels  gave  me  at  once  a  kiss. 
Where  did  you  get  that  coral  ear  ? 
God  spoke,  and  it  came  out  to  hear. 

Geo.  MacDonald 


June  the  seventeenth. 


© 


BIRD  sings  —  a  child  prattles  —  but 
it  is  the  same  hymn  :  hymn  indis- 
tinct, inarticulate,  but  full  of  pro- 
found meaning. 

Victor  Hugo. 


r 


June  tl>e  eighteenth. 

"HOWN  by  the  lilac  bush,  something 

white  and  azure, 
Saw  I  in  the  window,  as  I  passed  the 

tree; 
Well   I   knew   the  apron  and  shoulder 

knots  of  ribbon, 
All  belong  to  baby,  looking  out  for  me. 
Ethel  Lynn. 


June  the  nineteenth. 

HE   bliss  of  childhood  gushes  from 

its  innocence. 

Hawthorne. 


June  the  twentieth. 

71  ND  he  wandered  away  and  away 
®        With  Nature,  the  dear  old  nurse, 
Who  sang  to  him  night  and  day 
The  rhymes  of  the  universe. 

Longfellow . 


tlune  the  twenty-first. 


sp 


H  E  plays  of  childhood  have  the 
mightiest  influence  on  the  main- 
tenance    or     non-maintenance     of 

laws. 

Plato. 


June  the  twenty-second. 

HE  child  despises  mere  externals 
and  explores  the  heart  of  things,  to 
see  whether  it  be  good  or  evil. 

Stevenson. 


m, 


June  the  twenty-third. 

U^HAT  I  could  bask  in  childhood's  sun 
■*■      and  dance  o'er  childhood's  roses. 

Praed. 


June  the  twentv-fcurtft. 

DO  rose-buds  yet  by  dawn  impearled 

Match,  even  in  loveliest  land, 
The  sweetest  flowers  in  all  the  world  — 
A  baby's  hands. 

A.  C.  Swinburne . 


June  the  twentv-fiftb. 

7\    VIOLET  by  a  mossy  stone 
®         Half  hidden  from  the  eye ! 
Fair  as  a  star,  when  only  one 
Is  shining  in  the  sky. 

Wordsworth . 


June  m  twettty-sixtft. 

H^HE  rosebud  opens  on  her  cheek, 
-*•      The  meaning  eyes  begin  to  speak: 
And  in  each  smiling  look  is  seen 
The  innocence  which  plays  within. 
William  Whitehead. 


3«nc  \U  twent V'scpettil). 

fT\     EACH  of  these  human  flowers, 
®        God's  own  high  message  bears, 
And  we  are  walking  all  our  hours 
With  "  angels  unawares  !  " 

Mary  Howitt. 


June  tbc  twenty-ciaMb. 

"LXJHAT  flight  and  air  are  to  the  bird, 


play  is  to  the  child. 


Susan  Blow. 


June  tbe  twnty'tiM. 

T\  THICK  veil  hangs  over  the  young 
®  being  which,  like  a  closely  envel- 
oped bud,  does  not  betray  the  exact  im- 
age of  the  flower  it  will  one  day  expand 
into. 

Baroness  Va?i  Buelow. 


June  tfte  tttirtietb. 

QNENESS    with  Nature  is  the  glory 
®      of  childhood. 

G.  Stanley  Hall. 


July  the  first. 


§ 


NLY  a  tender  flower 
Sent  us  to  rear; 
Only  a  life  to  love, 

While  we  are  here. 
Only  a  baby  small, 
Never  at  rest; 
Small,  but  how  dear  to  us, 
God  knoweth  best. 

Matthias  Barr. 


July  tbc  second. 


JRHE  chi 
*      pitied. 


child  that  has  no  pets  is  to  be 
G.  Stanley  Hall. 


July  tbc  tbird. 

TO  LESSED  be  the  hand  that  prepares 

a  pleasure  for  a  child,  for  there  is 

no  saying  when  and  where  it  may 

bloom  forth. 

D.  Jerrold. 


July  tbc  fourth. 


w 


HE    plays  of  the  child  contain  the 

germ   of  the  whole  life  that  is  to 

follow. 

Froebel. 


July  tbc  fifth. 

£IOOD  government  depends  upon  get- 
ting a  child  to  so  love  and  trust  his 
parents  that  the  pleasing  them 
shall  of  itself  give  him  pleasure. 

Winterburn. 


July  tbc  $ixtb. 

OOTHING,    perhaps,    has   been   more 
misunderstood  than  childhood. 

James  Sully. 


July  the  seventh. 

lj  ERE   you   are,  you  little  croodlin' 

*■  doo! 

Looked   in   er   cradle,    but   didn't    find 

you  there  — 
Eooked    f'r    my    wee,     wee     coodlin' 

doo  ever 'where; 
Be'n   kind   lonesome   all  er   day   with- 

outen  you. 

Eugene  Field. 


July  the  eighth. 

JX?HE  child  creates  the  family  and  the 


family  life  by  its  advent. 


Froebel. 


July  tbe  ninth. 

ONE  cannot  turn  a  minute, 
®      But  mischief —  there  you're  in  it; 

Poking  at  the  roses, 

In  midst  of  which  your  nose  is; 
Or  climbing  on  a  table, 
No  matter  how  unstable, 
And  turning  up  your  quaint  eye 
And  half-shut  teeth,  with  "Mayn't  I?" 
Leigh  Hunt. 


July  the  tenth. 

"PjEEP  meaning  often  lies  in  childish 

play. 

Schiller. 


July  the  eleventh. 

C"HIL,DREN   are  like   grown   people; 
the  experience  of  others  is  never  of 


any  use  to  them. 


Daudet. 


luly  tlK  twelfth. 


3uly  the  fifteenth. 


T  CANNOT  do  anything  with  him, —his   j    XJLJHILE  childhood  shall  be  left,  im- 
father  indulges  him  so.  agination  shall  not  have  spread 

Winterburn.  her  holy  wings  totally  to  fly  the 

earth. 

Charles  Lamb. 


MS  the  thirteenth 

if)  USH,  my  dear,  lie  still  and  slumber, 
r-        Holy  angels  guard  thy  bed! 

Heavenly  blessings  without  number 
Gently  falling  on  thy  head. 

Isaac  Watts. 


Duty  the  fourteenth. 

T«FT  thy  child's  first  lesson  be  obedi- 
ence, and  the  second  may  be  what 

thou  wilt. 

Fuller. 


July  the  sixteenth. 

-pjELIGHT    and    liberty,    the    simple 

creed  of  childhood,  whether  busy 

or  at  rest. 

Wordsworth. 


July  the  seventeenth 

ONCE  a  child  is  born,  one  of  his  in- 
®      alienable  rights,  which  we  too  often 
deny  him,  is  the  right  to  his  child- 
hood. 

Kate  Douglass  Wig  gin. 


July  m  eighteenth. 

NOTHER  little  wave 
Upon  the  sea  of  life; 
Another  soul  to  save 

Amid  the  toil  and  strife. 

Lucy  E.  Ackerman. 


July  tbc  nineteenth. 

TO  ACHELORS'  wives  and  old  maids' 
'         children  are  always  perfect. 

Chamfort. 


July  tbc  twentieth. 

7]    CHILD  should  always  say  what's 
true 
And  speak  when  he  is  spoken  to, 
And  behave  mannerly  at  table, 
At  least  so  far  as  he  is  able. 

R.  L.  Stevenson. 


July  tbc  twenty-first 

JT7HE  child  is  the  mother's  chief  text- 
*      book,  and  a  beautiful,  entrancing' 
perplexing  volume  it  is. 

Emilie  Poulsson. 


July  the  twenty-second. 

■O  RIGHTER  beamed  thine  eyes  than 
summer, 
And  thy  first  attempt  at  speech, 
Thrilled     our     heart     strings     with    a 
rapture 
Music  ne'er  could  reach. 

D.  M.  Moir. 


July  tbc  twenty*tbird. 


<? 


UT  of  the  wrong  shall  come  the  right; 
out  of  the  tears  of  a  child,  the  smiles 
of  childhood;  out  of  the  smiles  of 
childhood,  a  better  world. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


July  the  twenty-fourth. 

CHILDHOOD    and   youth   are    the 
periods  of  preparation. 

F.  V.  N.  Painter. 


July  the  twenfy-fiftb. 

"LJ  OW  genius  might  be  multiplied  if 
-*•  we  let  nature  take  us  into  her  con- 
fidence and  followed  the  open  secret 
that  broods  over  the  spring  flowers. 

Edward  Howard.  Griggs. 


July  the  twenty-sixth. 

ifj  OW  dear  to  my  heart  are  the  scenes 


of  my  childhood, 


And  every  lov'd  spot  that  my  infancy 

knew. 

Samuel  Wood  worth. 


July  the  twenty-seventh. 

T  F  children  grew  up  according  to  early 
indications,  we  should  have  nothing 


but  geniuses. 


Goethe. 


July  the  twenty-eighth. 

~T\    CHILD  at  play  in  meadows  green, 

(2/X 

Plucking  the  fragrant  flowers, 
Chasing  the  white-winged  butterflies, — 
So  sweet  are  childhood's  hours. 
Selected. 


July  the  twenty-ninth. 

TnlVING    jewels   dropped   unstained 
from  heaven. 

Pollok. 


July  the  thirtieth. 

T  F  we  could  only  keep  from  untwisting 
the  morning-glory,  only  be  willing 
to  let  the  sunshine  do  it. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


Only  the  thirty-first 

T  F  you  make  children  happy  now,  you 
will  make  them  happy  twenty  years 
hence  by  the  memory  of  it. 

Sidney  Smith. 


August  the  first. 

7]    HAPPY  childhood  is  an  unspeak- 
ably precious  memory. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


August  the  second. 

7  H  E    sports   of   children   satisfy   the 


CT2 


child. 


Goldsmith. 


Must  the  third. 

\_LJE  used  to  think  how  she  had  come, 
Even  as  comes  the  flower, 
The  last  and  perfect  added  gift 

To  crown  Love's  morning  hour. 

Maria  Lowell. 


August  the  fourth. 

TT  is  hardly  to  be  wondered  at  that  a 
child  occasionally  feels  like  offering 
counsel  to  a  parent  in  the  matter  of 
his  own  training. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


August  the  fifth. 

TnJFE'S   song,    indeed,    would  lose  its 

charm, 

Were  there  no  babies  to  begin  it, 

A  doleful  place    this   world   would   be, 

Were  there  no  little  people  in  it. 

Whittier. 


August  the  sixth. 

(©[NBLOWN    flowers,    new  -  appearing 

sweets. 

Shakespeare. 


August  the  seventh. 

"EVERY  mother  is  an  unconscious  evo- 
lutionist, and  every  little  child  a 
living  witness  to  the  ascent. 

Henry  Drummond. 


August  the  eighth. 

T  ralTTLE  children  never  think  of  pol- 
icy.    They  say  what  they  think. 

William  Burnet  Wright. 


August  the  ninth. 

T3LESSINGS  on  them!   they  in  me 
'         Move  a  kindly  sympathy, 


With  their  wonder  so  intense, 
And  their  small  experience. 

Mary  Howitt. 


August  the  tenth. 


sp 


O  children  one  grain  of  the  present 
is  worth  a  mountain  of  the  future. 

Winterburn. 


August  the  eleventh. 


sp 


HE  forest  flower  in  the  garden  of 
creation  is  a  young  mind  offering 
and  unfolding  itself  to  the  influence  of 
divine  wisdom,  as  the  heliotrcpe  turns 
its  sweet  blossoms  to  the  sun. 

Sir  J.  E.  Smith. 


August  the  twelfth. 

n^HOU  art  a  landmark  on  a  hill;  thy 
•*■      little  ones  copy  thee  in  all  things. 

Tupper. 


August  tDe  thirteenth. 

TQEHOIvD  the  child  among  his  new- 

'  born  blisses  — 

A  six  year's  darling  of  a  pigmy  size; 

See,  where  'mid  work  of  his  own  hand 

he  lies, 

Fretted  by  sallies  of  his  mother's  kisses, 

With  light  upon  him  from  his  father's 

eyes. 

Wordsworth. 


August  tin  fourteenth. 

H^O  be  a  good  story  teller  is  to  be  king 
among  children. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


August  the  fifteenth. 

QH  !    I  love  you  so  — 
®       You  are  too  young  to  kuow  it  now, 
But  some  time  you  will  know. 

Eugene  Field. 


August  the  sixteenth. 


T 


HE  gathering  of  children's  language 
would  be  much  like  collecting  to- 
gether a  handful  of  flowers  that  should 
be   all   unique,    simple   of  their  kind. 

Alice  Meynell. 


August  the  seventeenth. 

HE  child  ought  to  love  his  mother 

before  he  knows  that  it  is  his  duty 

to  do  so. 

Rousseau. 


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August  the  eighteenth. 

H^HE  most  delicate,  and  the  most  im 
portant  part  of  the  training  of  chil- 
dren consists  in  the  development  of 
their  inner  and  higher  life  of  feeling 
ing  and  of  soul,  from  which  springs 
all  that  is  highest  and  holiest  in  the 
life  of  mankind. 

Froebel. 


August  m  nineteenth 

T\  CHILD  says  abroad  what  he  learns 
at  home. 

Accra. 


August  the  twentieth 

7J     HAPPY    child   amidst    a    great 

throng  of  grown  people  who  pay 

the  same  reverence  to  her  infancy 

that  they  would  to  extreme  old  age. 

Hawthorne. 


August  the  twenty-first. 

^UHERE  was  a  hopeful  young  horse 
1      Who  was  brought  up  on  love  with- 
out force; 
He     had     his     own    way    and     they 
sugared  his  hay; 
So  he  never  was  naughty,  of  course. 
Selected. 


August  the  twenty-second. 

/^HILDREN  learn  to  do  by  doing. 

Comenius. 


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August  the  twenty-ftird. 

HOUSE  is  never  perfectly  furnished 
for  enjoyment  unless  there  is  a 
child  in  it  rising  three  years,  and 
a  kitten  rising  three  weeks. 

Sou  they. 


August  m  twenty-fourth. 

((T  T  TWO  gathered  these  lilies?"  asked 
the  gardener,  as  he  came  into 
the  garden  and  found  some  of  his  fairest 
and  loveliest  lilies  cut.  "I  did,"  re- 
plied the  Master.  Then  the  gardener 
held  his  peace. 
Inscription  in  an  English  Churchyard. 

August  fbe  twenty-fifth. 

j  OW  good  was  God  to  give  such  balm 
divine 

To  sinning  Eve  bereft  of  paradise  ! 
To  grant  her,  mourning  over  Eden  lost, 
To  find  new  Edens  in  her  baby's  eyes  ! 

Allen. 

August  the  twenty-sixth. 

TOEHOLD  the  child,  by  nature's  kindly 

'  law, 

Pleased    with  a  rattle,   tickled  with 

a  straw. 

Pope. 


August  the  twenty-seventh. 

TTJE  should  strive  to  build  up  the 
positive  side  of  a.  child's  nature, 
and  the  negative  side  will  take 
care  of  itself. 

Prof.  Shaler. 


August  the  twenty-eighth. 

piOT  the  schools,  and  not  the  univers- 
ities,  form  the  birthplace  of  civili- 
zation—  but  the  center  of  human 

life,  the  Nursery. 

Hoffman. 


August  (be  twenty--nint ft. 

TT  is  enough  to  bear 

This  image  still  and  fair, 
This  holier  in  sleep 
Than  a  saint  at  prayer; 
This  aspect  of  a  child 
Who  never  sinned  or  smiled. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


August  tfte  thirtieth, 

TZoXCEPT  ye  be  converted,  and  become 
as  little  children,  ye  cannot  enter 
the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

Bible. 


August  tfte  tftirty-first. 

C2l OD,  that  he  might  draw  man  to  man, 
became  man;  we,  if  we  would  draw 
children  to  us,  must  become  chil- 
dren. 

Luther. 


September  the  first. 

"C7URL  your  sail,  my  little  boatie, 

Fold  your  wings  my  tired  dove, 
Dews  are  sprinkling,  stars  are  twinkling 

drowsily  above, 
Cease  from  sailing,  cease  from  rowing, 
Rock  upon  the  dreamtide,  knowing 
Safely  o'er  your  rest  are  glowing, 
All  the  night  my  little  boatie  —  Harbor 

lights  of  love. 

Van  Dyke. 


September  the  second. 

CHILDREN   are  certain  sorrows,  but 

uncertain  joys. 

Proverb. 


September  the  third. 

JT7HE  baby  has  gone  to  school;  ah,  me! 
•*■      What  will  the  mother  do, 
With  never  a  call  to  button  or  pin, 

Or  tie  a  little  shoe  ? 
How  can  she  keep  herself  busy  all  day 
With  the  little  hindering  thing  away? 
Anonymous. 


September  the  fourth, 

7]    CHILD  is  a  man  in  a  small  letter. 
Bishop  Earle. 


September  the  fifth. 

TT  is  with  youth  as  with  plants:  from 

the   first   fruits  they  bear  we  learn 

what  may  be  expected  in  the  future. 

Demophilus. 


September  the  sixth. 

CHILDHOOD  is  emphatically  the 
period  of  safe  instincts. 

Martineau. 


September  the  seventh. 

71  LX  the  learning  of  all  the  great 
men  cannot  teach  the  greatest 
mind  to  understand  the  smallest 
child. 

Homer  S.  Cummings. 


September  the  eighth. 

"M  OW  little  is  the  promise  of  the  child 


fulfilled  in  the  man. 


Ovid. 


SH 


September  the  ninth. 

O  know  the  child  and  the  laws  of  his 
being  —  this  is  the  subject  which 
engages  the  thought  of  the  wisest 
men  of  our  time. 

Lucy  Wheelock. 


September  the  tenth. 


T  T  7"  H  O    can  foretell    for  what    high 
cause 
This  Darling  of  the  Gods  was  born. 
Andrew  Marvell. 


September  the  ekflenth. 

IJt/HAT  the  leaves  are  to  the  forest, 
With  light  and  air  for  food, 
Ere  their  sweet  and  tender  juices 
Have  been  hardened  into  wood, 
That  to  the  world  are  children; 
Through  them  it  feels  the  glow, 
Of  a  brighter  and  sunnier  climate 
Than  reaches  the  trunks  below. 

Longfellow. 


September  the  twelfth. 

7]  I/WAYS,  whatever  with  a  child  you 
fe1         do. 

Remain  in  touch  with  its  own  life 
all  through. 

Froebel. 


September  the  thirteenth. 


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HEY  who  refuse  to  train  up  children 
in  the  way  they  should  go  are 
training  up  incendiaries  and  mad- 
men to  destroy  property  and  life. 

Horace  Mann. 


September  the  fourteenth. 

T^EVER  do  for  your  boy,  what  he  can 
do  for  himself. 

Mark  Twain. 


September  the  fifteenth. 


sp 


HE  child  is  committed  to  the  mercy 
of  its  parents  because  it  is  their 
duty  to  do  the  most  they  can  to 
make  it  what  it  should  be. 

William  Burnet  Wright. 


September  the  sixteenth. 

CWEET   infant,  whom  thy  brooding 

parents  love 
For    what    thou    art,    and    what    they 

hope  to  see  thee. 

Coleridge. 


September  the  seventeenth. 


sp 


HK   youth,    who  daily  farther  from 

the  east 
Must  travel,  still  is  nature's  priest. 

Wordsworth. 


September  the  eighteenth. 

CAY  not  that  it  has  been  a  waste  of 
precious  moments,  an  idle  matter, 
a  babble  of  childish  talk  and  a  reverie 
of  childish  imaginations  about  topics 
unworthy  of  a  grown  man's  notice. 

Hawthorne. 


September  the  nineteenth. 

H^HE  church  cannot  serve  the  children 
better  than  to  be  the  parents'  mon- 
itor, and  constantly  to  keep  before 
them  the  privilege  of  their  high  calling 
in  the  Christian  home. 

James  W.  Cooper,  D.  D. 


September  the  twentieth. 

"QO  not  try  to  produce  an  ideal  child; 
it  would  find  no  fitness  in  this 
world. 

Herbert  Spencer. 


September  the  twentHirst. 

£UHE  child  loves  to  be  taught  by  par- 
ables, if  he  understands  that,  under 
the  form  of  fiction,  he  can  find  the 
kernel  of  truth. 

Mary  Wood  Allen. 


September  the  twenty-second. 


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S  man  reveals  and  beholds  himself 
in  literature  and  art,  the  child  re- 
veals and  beholds  himself  in  play. 
Susan  Blow. 


September  the  twenty-third. 

U^RHE  child  of  six  years  is  so  impres- 
■*■  sible,  so  imitative,  so  unsuspect- 
ing, so  believing,  that  he  is  little 
more  than  putty  in  the  hands  of 
others." 


September  the  twenty-fourth 

nVERY  truth  given  too  early  by  words 
plants  the  seeds  of  vice  in  the  child- 
ish soul. 

Rousseau. 


September  the  twenty-fifth. 

"LJLJHEN  about  a  year  old  a  child  enters 

into    its   first   comprehension    of 

the    power   and   value    of    language, 

which   is    the    door    of    intellectual 

life. 

Frances  Fisher. 


September  the  twenty-sixth. 

((T    HAVE   children!"  is   a   reflection 

that   saves   many   a   man's   heart 

from  despair. 

Mrs.  P.  Cudlip. 


September  the  twenty-seventh. 


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HE  love  of  children  is  the  great  bal- 
ance   wheel    that   counteracts    the 
strong  tendency  towards  egotism. 
Felix  Adler. 


September  the  twenty-eighth. 

T   IylKE  to  see  children  have  what  they 

want  when  their  wants  are  innocent. 

Gail  Hamilton. 


September  the  twenty-ninth. 

£UHE  scenes  of  childhood  are  the  mem- 


ories of  future  years. 


J.  O.  Choules. 


September  the  thirtieth. 

XJLJHEN  a  true  woman  puts  her  finger 
for  the  first  time  into  the  tiny 
hand  of  her  baby,  and  feels  that  help- 
less clutch  which  tightens  her  very 
heart  strings,  she  is  born  again  with 
the  new-born  child. 

Kate  Douglass  Wig  gin. 


October  tbe  first. 

TF  I  were  to  choose  among  all  gifts  and 

qualities  that  -which,  on  the  whole, 

makes  life  pleasant,  I  should  select 

the  love  of  children. 

Higginson. 


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October  tbe  second. 

E  N  children  are  loved  by  their 
parents,  where  one  child  has  his 
parents'  sympathy. 

Henry  Clay  Trumbull. 


October  tbe  tbirti. 

7\  CHILD  more  than  all  other  gifts 
That  earth  can  offer  to  declining 

man, 
Brings  hope  with  it. 

Wordsworth. 


October  tbe  tourtb. 

TJLJE  sometimes  treat  children  as  little 

men   and   women,    not    realizing 

that  the  most  perfect  childhood  is 

the  best  basis  for  strong  manhood. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


October  tbe  m tb. 

ZpHIlvDHOOD  !   happiest  days  of  life. 
Sir  Walter  Scott. 


October  tbe  sixtb. 

COME,    little  child,    cuddle  closer   to 

me 
In    your    dainty    white    nightcap     and 

gown, 
And  I'll  rock  you  away  to  that  Sugar- 
Plum  Tree, 
In  the  garden  of  Shut- Eye-Town. 

Eugene  Field. 


October  the  seventh. 

"CVERYONE   who  -works  with  youth 

should    strive   for   the   glad   heart 

that  wreathes  the  child's  face  in 

smiles. 

William  C.  Bates. 


October  m  eighth. 

^HILDREN  only  understand  what 
they  can  refer  back  to  themselves, 
for  they  can  only  start  from  them- 
selves. 

Baroness  Van  Buelow. 


October  tbe  ninth. 

U  f^.IVE  me  the  first  six  years  of  a 
child's  life,  and  I  care  not  who 
has  the  rest." 


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October  the  tenth. 

TF    we    desire  to    perform    our    duty 

toward    our  children    it    is    not    to 

their    outward  conduct     but     to     the 

heart   that    we  must   direct    our   chief 

attention. 

Hare. 


October  the  eleventh. 

"CVERY    child  that  is  born  into  the 

world  forms  part  of  the  scheme  of 

the  universe  and  is  subject  to  its 

laws. 

Alice  M.  Christie. 


October  the  twelfth. 

H^HAT  branch  of  the  Christian  church 
-*-  which  acts  most  wisely  and  prompt- 
ly and  efficiently  in  the  disciplining 
of  its  children,  is  the  one  that  will  be 
most   greatly   prospered  in  the  coming 

years. 

James  W.  Cooper,  D.  D. 


October  the  thirteenth. 

ZyT  OST  of  the  lessons  of  children  are 


feX 


by  imitation. 


Warren  Easton. 


October  tbe  fourteenth. 

QHE    has    been    better   than   a   daily 

sermon    in    the    house  ever  since 

she  was  born. 

K.  D.  Wig  gin. 


October  tbe  fifteenth. 

^y^OMKN  know 

The  way  to  rear  up  children. 
They    know    a    simple,    merry,    tender 

knack, 
Of  tying  sashes,  fitting  baby  shoes, 
And  stringing  pretty  words  that  make 
no  sense. 

Mrs.  Browning. 


October  tbe  sixteenth. 

ZyT  ANY    little  faults  for   which   chil- 
dren are   chided   are    not   worth 

noticing. 

Florence  Winterburn. 


October  tbe  seventeenth. 

"yyHIIvE    here   at   home,    in   shining 
day, 
We  round  the  sunny  garden  play. 
Each  little  Indian  sleepy-head 
Is  being  kissed  and  put  to  bed. 

Stevenson. 


October  tbe  eighteenth. 

"OOTHING  pleases  a  child  more  than 

to    have   the   grown   folks   admire 

what   he   admires,    and   love   what 

he  loves. 

Patterson  DuBois. 


October  the  nineteenth. 

U^TCHERE  is  something  brighter  far 
-*■      Than  sun,  or  rnoon,  or  twinkling 

star; 
And  fairer  than  a  bird  or  brook, 
Or  floweret  with  its  pleasant  look, 
It  is  a  simple  little  child, 
Whose  heart  is  pure  and  undefiled." 


October  the  twentieth. 

HE   world   is  full  of   good   children 

who   have   been  spoiled  by  stupid 

parents. 

Homer  S.  Cummings. 


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October  the  twenty-first. 

TmET  every  father  and  mother  under- 
stand that  when  the  child  is  three 
years    old    that  they   have   done   more 
than    half    they    ever    will  do   for   his 

character. 

Bush  tie  11. 


October  the  twenty-second, 

TQEESSED    is   he    who    loveth    little 
'         children ;     he    shall    be    held     in 
everlasting  remembrance. 

Henry  Sabin. 


October  the  twenty-third. 

OAITH   and    innocence   we   find  only 

in  the  children's  mind. 

Dante. 


October  the  twenty-fourth. 

QF  all  comforters  the  child  loves  best 

®      his  mother,  and  even   full   grown 

men  have  found  it  so. 

Spurge  on. 


October  the  twenty- filth. 

TpET    us   live  for   our   children;    then 
will  the  life  of   our  children  bring 


us  peace  and  joy. 


Froebel. 


October  the  twenty-sixth. 

CHILDHOOD  is  like  a  mirror,  which 
reflects  in  after  life  the  images  first 


presented  to  it. 


Samuel  Smiles. 


October  the  twenty  seventh. 


SR 


HE    most    important    part  of  educa- 
tion is  right  training  in  the  nursery. 

Plato. 


October  the  twentietb-eigbtb. 


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CHILD  is  a  Cupid  become  visible. 
Nova/is. 


October  the  twenty-ninth. 

T  F  there  is  anything  that  will  endure 

The  eye  of  God,  because  it  still  is 

pure, 

It    is  the  spirit   of  a   little  child, 

Fresh    from    His    hand    and   therefore 

undefiled. 

R.  H.  Stoddard. 


October  tbe  thirtieth, 

TF  I  were  a  boy,  again,  I  should  want 

a  thorough  discipline,  early  begun, 

and  never  relaxed,  on  the  great  doctrine 

of  will-force  as  the  secret  of  character. 

Bishop  Vincent. 

October  the  tbirty=fir$t 

LITTLE  bum  will  hurt; 
A  little  sting  will  smart; 
And  little  unkind  words, 
Will  grieve  a  little  heart. 

Youths'  Companion. 


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Hooember  the  first. 

"p\  O  R    sky,    nor   wave,    nor   tree,    nor 
flower, 
Nor  green  earth's  virgin   sod, 
So  moved  the  singer's  heart  of  old 
As  these  small  things  of  God. 

Wh  ittier. 


nwember  the  second. 

TralVING   jewels,  dropped  unstained 

from  heaven. 

Pollok. 


nwemfcev  ifte  third. 

O^HOU,  little  child 

-*-      Full  soon  thy  soul  shall  have  her 

earthly  freight, 
And  custom  lie  upon  thee  with  a  weight, 
Heavy  as  frost,  and  deep  almost  as  life. 


nwtm&r  the  fourtb. 

/^HILDREN   must  be  understood  be- 
fore they  can  be  taught  or  trained. 
Homer  S.  Cummings. 


novetifter  the  fifth. 

(^HIIvDREN,  like  tender  Trees  do  take 

the  Bow, 
And   as  they   firft  are   fathom 'd   always 

grow, 
For  what   we   learn  in  Youth,   to  that 

alone, 
In  Age  we  are  by  fecond  Nature  prone. 
New  England  Primer. 


nowmber  the  sixth. 

OT\UCH   of   love  and  sunshine  comes 
into   the  world  with   little   chil- 


dren. 


Mary  Si  Hi  man. 


Bwember  the  seventh. 


novetnher  the  tenth. 


H7HE  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle 
-*■      Is  the  hand  that  rules  the  world. 

William  J?oss  Wallace. 


noventher  the  eighth. 

"LXJH  E  N    his    reason    yieldeth    fruit, 
make  thy  child  thy  friend; 

For   a   filial    friend    is   a   double    gain, 
a  diamond  set  in  gold. 

Tupper. 


December  the  ninth. 

7]    CHILD  never  seeks  to  pick  flaws 
in  love. 

Florence  Winterbtirn. 


J"   THINK  it  must  be  somewhere  writ- 
ten that  the  virtues  of  the  mothers 
shall    occasionally    be    visited    on    the 
children,    as    well    as    the    sins    of   the 

father. 

Charles  Dickens. 


newtnher  the  eleventh. 

H^ODAY   the  glory   of   our  country  is 

*■      that  it  is  the  age  of  little  children. 

Lucy  Wheelock. 


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liwmuv  the  twelfth. 

HE  child  should  not  be  reared  in  a 
padded  room;  he  should  not  be  a 
hot-house  creature  that  will  cry  for 
help  at  the  first  cold  breath  from  the 
sphere  of  actual  life. 

Jenkin  Lloyd  Jones. 


Hovemher  m  thirteenth. 

TT    requires   a   critical   nicety   to   find 

out  the  genius  or   the   propensities 

of  a  child. 

L' Estrange. 


nwtffi&er  fbe  fotirteentb. 

pHIIvDHOOD  is  defrauded  of  half 
its  inheritance  when  no  one  swings 
wide  before  it,  the  door  into  the 
fairyland  of  nature. 

Hamilton  Mabie. 


Ximm m  the  fifteenth. 

EACH  your  child  to  hold  his  tongue, 

He'll  learn  fast  enough  to  speak. 

Benj.  Franklin . 


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nwem&er  the  sixteenth. 

GROUND    the    child    bend    all    the 
three 
Sweet   graces, —  Faith,    Hope,    Charity. 

Land  or. 


Xtmtmux  the  seventeenth. 

LXJHENEVER  a  little  child  is  born, 
All  night  a  soft  wind   rocks  the 


One  more  buttercup  wakes  to  the  morn, 
Somewhere,  somewhere. 

Agnes  L.  Carter. 


Kwember  the  eighteenth. 

^UHEN    hush    thee,    my  darling,  take 
*-      rest  while  you  may, 
For    strife    comes    with   manhood   and 
waking  with  day. 

Sir  Walter  Scott. 


nwember  the  nineteenth. 


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HE    sorrows    of   childhood,  like  the 

pleasures  of  after  life,  are  transient. 

Frederic  Douglass. 


nwemher  the  twentieth. 

\Jf-JOULD  you  know  the  baby's  skies? 
Baby's   skies  are  mamma's  eyes. 
Mamma's  eyes  and  smile  together 
Make  the  baby's  pleasant  weather. 
M.  C.  Bartlett. 


Ximwfoix  the  twenty-first. 


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OW  fair  and  innocent  he  lies ! 
Like  some  small  angel  strayed. 
Curtiss  May. 


nooember  the  twenty-second. 

tQL,ESSED  is  he  who  seeth  the  good 
'         which    is    in    the    wayward  child; 

he   shall  find    his    reward   in    the 

life  of  a  noble  man. 

Henry  Sab  in. 


Member  the  twenty-third. 

CHALL  we  blame  the  child  who 
turns  away  and  does  not  share  the 
sacrifice  of  its  parents,  if  he  has 
been  taught  in  youth  to  do  so  ? 

Sarah  L.  Arnold' 


ttonemfcer  the  twenty-fourth. 

"EVERY  word  spoken  within  the  hear- 
ing of  little  children  tends  towards 


the  formation  of  character. 


Ballon. 


Rowmber  tbe  twenty  T iftb. 

1@)ARENTS  who  are  quite  innocent  of 
child-study  are  always  experiment- 
ing in  a  loose  way  on  their  children 
trying  this  or  that  influence  in  order 
to  modify  the  temper,  to  draw  out  re- 
luctant action,  or  to  arrest  some  inju- 
rious impulse. 

James  Sully. 


Itovember  tbe  twenty--$ixtb. 

jJE  who  has  heard  in  his  own  life 
an  echo  of  song  from  the  land  of 
little  people,  who  has  played  with 
children  in  their  own  country,  has 
certainly  discovered  here  a  borderland 
of  the  kingdom. 

Lucy  Wheelock. 


Hcwmber  tne  twenty-seventh. 

gHILDHOOD  shall  be  all  divine. 

B.  W.  Proctor. 


nwem&er  tne  twenty  eiantft. 

SHWO  little  snowy  wings,  softly  flutter 

to  and  fro, 
Two  tiny  childish  hands,  beckons  still 

to  me  below; 
Two  tender  angel  eyes  watch  me  ever 

earnestly 
Through  the  loop  holes  of  the  skies; 

baby  's  looking  out  for  me. 

Ethel  Lynn. 

november  tne  twenty-nmtn. 

JN   his  joys  as  in  his  sorrows,   a  true 
child  wants  some  one  to  share  his 
feelings  rather  than  to  guide  them. 
Henry  Clay  Trumbull. 

november  tne  tWrfietfr. 

HEY   are   idols   of    hearts    and    of 
households, 
They  are  angels  of  God  in  disguise; 
His  sunlight  still  sleeps  in  their  tresses, 
His  glory  still  gleams  in  their  eyes. 

Charles  Dickinson. 


December  the  first. 

OUR   birth  is  but  a  sleep  and  a  for- 

6  getting; 

The  soul  that  rises  with  us,   our  life's 
star, 

Hath  had  elsewhere  its  setting, 
And  cometh  from  afar. 
Not  in  entire  forgetfulness, 
And  not  in  utter  nakedness, 

But  trailing  clouds  of  glory,  do  we  come, 

From  God,  who  is  our  home. 

Wordsworth . 


December  tbe  second. 

CHILDREN    are  looked    upon  as  the 


gift    of  God. 


F.  V.  N.  Painter. 


December  the  third. 

H^HERE  is  in  each  child  an  element 
■*■  of  the  divine  which  renders  it 
possible  for  it  to  attain  a  marvelous 
development  in  even  a  single  genera- 
tion. 

Hughes. 


December  the  fourth. 

7\  H  !   the  infinite  variety  of  children, 

®       the  infinite  simplicity,  the  infinite 

wisdom. 

Homer  S.  Cummings, 


December  the  fifth. 

T   DELIGHT  to  let  my  mind  go  hand 
in  hand  with  a  sinless  child. 

Hawthorne. 


December  the  sixth. 

T  N  the  child  lies  the  seed  corn  of  the 

future. 

Susan  Blow. 


December  the  seventh. 

pHILDREN  are  not  simpletons. 
They  respect  and  love  manly  men 
and  womanly  women. 

Andrew  S.  Draper. 


December  the  eighth. 

T\  H  !   what  would  the  world  be  to  us, 
®        If  the  children  were  no  more  ? 
We  should  dread  the  desert  behind  us, 
More  than  the  dark  before. 

Longfellow. 


December  the  ninth. 

QEE  first  that  a  child's  realities   are 

heavenly. 

Ruskin. 


December  the  tenth. 

i  i  ll  ERE  lies  a  good  man,  for  he  was 
*■        the  friend  of  the  children." 

Dickens'  Epitaph. 


December  the  eleventh. 

r^.ODDE  loveth  children  and  doth  gird 
His  throne  with  soche  as  these, 

And  He  doth  smile  in  plaisance  while 
They  clvster  at  His  knees. 

Eugene  Field. 


December  the  twelfth, 

1JLJITH  high  ideals  help  the  children 

to  devise  good. 

Lucy  Wheeiock. 


December  the  thirteenth. 

O UFFER  little  children  to  come  unto 
me,  and  forbid  them  not,  for  of 
such  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 

Bible. 


December  the  fourteenth. 

CHE  would  look  at  them,  with  true 
baby  dignity  in  her  face, —  that 
deep,  earnest  look  which  babies  often 
have,  and  which  people  think  so  won- 
derful when  Raphael  paints  it,  although 
they  might  often  see  just  the  same  ex- 
pression in  the  faces  of  their  own  darl- 
ings at  home. 

T.  IV.  Higginson. 


December  the  fifteenth. 

LJLJAS  I  to  be  trusted  with  that  ten- 
derest,  truest,  most  God-like  of 
earthly  things, — the  heart  of  a 
confiding  child  ? 

Patterson  DuBois. 


December  the  sixteenth. 

O^HERE'S   nothing  on  earth  half  so 
■*•      holy   as   the   innocent   heart   of    a 


child ! 


C.  Dickinson. 


December  the  seventeenth. 


m, 


O    a   child   its  mother  should  be  as 

God. 

G.  Stanley  Hall. 


December  the  eighteenth. 

rX  ECAUSE  he  is  humble-hearted,  the 
child  finds  joy  in  the  least  things 
as  in  the  greatest.  From  a  daisy,  a  kit- 
ten or  the  shine  of  a  star,  he  will  draw 
more  gladness  than  we  can  gather  from 
the  possession  of  a  gold  mine. 

William  Burnet  Wright. 


December  the  nineteenth. 

gHILDREN  are  the  keys  of  Paradise. 
R.  H.  Stoddard. 


December  the  twentieth. 


Fpe 


Master  says,  "Be  pure  and  un- 

defiled," 

When,  in   your  midst,   he  sets  a  little 

child. 

Harriet  Canfield. 


December  the  twenty-first. 

LJEAVEN  lies  about  us  in  our  infancy. 

Wordsworth. 


P 


December  the  twenty-second 

gVERY  human  being  is  in  his  spirit- 
ual origin  a  particular  thought  of 
God. 

Froebel. 


December  the  twenty-third. 

1J  ER  life  may  be  a  cipher,  but  when 
the  child  comes,  God  writes  a 
figure  before  it,  and  gives  it 
value. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin. 


December  the  twenty-fourth. 

HE  heart  of  Nature  feels  the  touch 
of  Love; 
And  angels  sing : 
"The  Christ  is  King! 
See  in  his  heart  the  life  we  live  above." 
E.  P.  Gould. 


December  the  twenty-fifth. 

H^HE    Savior  of  the  world   slumbered 
-*-      in  a  little  child. 

Lucy  Wheelock. 


December  the  twenty-sixth. 

T\J\  AN  is  born  the  child  of  nature,  but 
®         is  destined  to  become  the  child  of 


God. 


December  the  twenty-seventh. 

LXJHEN  first  thy  infant  littleness 
I  folded  in  my  fond  caress, 
The  greatest  drop  of  happiness 
Was  this  —  I  wept. 

Thomas  Hood. 


Froebel. 


December  the  twenty-eighth. 

TTJR  should  respect  individuality   in 

our  children  as  a  mark  of  their 

value. 

Florence  Winterburn. 


December  tbe  tweitty°nitttb. 

T    NEVER  look  down  into  the  still, 

clear   pool   of  a   child's   innocent, 

questioning    eyes,    without     thinking: 

"Dear  little  one,  it  must  'be  give  and 

take '   between  thee   and   me.     I    have 

gained    something    here    in    all    these 

years,  but  thou  hast  come  from  thence 

more  lately  than  have  I;    thou  hast  a 

treasure  that  the  years  have  stolen  from 

me  —  share  it  with  me  !  " 

Selected. 


December  tbe  tbirtietb. 

IJLJHAT  gift  has  Providence  bestowed 

on  man   so  dear   to   him   as  his 

children  ? 

Cicero. 


December  tbe  thirty-first. 

U  TffllFE    for    us   no   loftier   aim   can 
hold 
Than   leading   little   children  in   the 
light." 


